WingTips April 2015

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April 2015 Volume 7, Issue 4

In This Issue

Hotel & Transit Center Parks Air Service News

Frontier Airlines Announces New to Raleigh- Durham Route Earth Day at DIA BA Has New Plane Starting June 11, Frontier Airlines will begin nonstop service between Denver and Electric Vehicles 747 In Museum Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) in North Carolina.

Famous Aviators The Kindest Flight Southwest Increasing Denver Flights in June

Southwest is increasing its service from Denver, beginning June 7, 2015. The new flights will be between Denver and Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Columbus, Houston (Hobby), Minneapolis-St. Paul, Orlando, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh-Durham, and Seattle.

Southwest Airlines' added nonstop flights bring the airline's current Denver market volume of 174 daily flights up to 185. Completion of the Westin Denver International Airport Hotel and Conference Center is moving quickly and will be completed in November 2015. With many of the rooms Southwest's Weekly Flight to Albany Begins June 7 carpeted, wallpapered, and illuminated, the hotel is a sight to see! The new hotel and Once a week on Saturdays, conference center will provide many amenities to the metro Denver area and will be effective June 7, 2015, home to several new public art pieces that will be installed this spring. nonstop service between Albany, N.Y. (ALB), and Construction Update: Denver begins on Southwest Airlines. Paver installation is underway on the plaza, just outside Terminal Level 5 Carpet has been laid in both hotel ballrooms United Adds Twice-Weekly Exterior doors to both west and east restaurants have been installed on the Flights Between Denver and plaza level North Bend, Ore.

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The tiling for the swimming pool and hot tub is now complete on the 11th floor On Sundays and Wednesdays The commuter rail power lines are now live from July 1 to October 18, The first rail cars arrived at the platform for static testing will conduct A two-car train made its first trip under its own power from Union Station to new nonstop flights between DIA on April 17 Denver International Airport and Southwest Oregon Regional Airport (OTH), in North Bend, Ore.

United will use CRJ-700 jet aircraft, providing a full-service cabin and seating for up to 70 passengers, including six first- class cabin seats.

The town of North Bend is on Coos Bay and north of the town of Coos Bay. The bay is located on Oregon's southern coast (or "Oregon's Adventure Coast"). The Pacific Coast Highway (U.S. Highway 101) goes through North Bend, which is near six state parks, wildlife refuges, beaches, and lighthouses. A FasTracks commuter train—part of the East Rail Line—is parked at its station at Denver Southwest Applies for DEN- International Airport for static testing. The station is located on the first level of the hotel and Puerto Vallarta transit center complex being built just south of Jeppesen Terminal. The East Rail Line connects the airport with Denver Union Station and is scheduled to start service in spring 2016. Southwest Airlines filed an application with the U.S. Follow this link to see the train pull into the DIA station for the first time under its Department of Transportation own power. to provide daily, nonstop service between Denver and East Rail Line Train Puerto Vallarta's (PVR) Lic. Gustavo Diaz Ordaz Earth Day – Celebrating 20 Years of Investing in International Airport in Mexico, beginning in November 2015. Sustainability "Our new daily flight from the 1995 – DIA opens as one of the most environmentally conscious airports in the world. Rockies to the Mexican Pacific Jeppesen Terminal's translucent roof allows daylight into the structure, reducing coastline will give our Colorado lighting needs; specially built deicing pads collect most deicing fluid runoff, which is customers as well as recycled at an on-site plant instead of discharged as wastewater connecting passengers quick access to another international 2001 – The Clean Cities National Partner Award is presented to DIA for its use of destination," said Steven alternative fuel vehicles Swan, Southwest Airlines director of international 2004 – DIA extends its spent deicing fluid collection infrastructure to taxiway and planning. "We expect strong areas (DIA has an industry-leading deicing fluid collection rate of 75 percent demand from both leisure and [2013-14], with 74 percent of collected fluid recycled) business customers for this route to the growing region 2004 – DIA becomes the first commercial-air-service airport in North America to have that straddles both Jalisco and an internationally certified Environmental Management System covering all operations Nayarit."

2004 – Colorado's Environmental Leadership Program recognizes DIA as a Gold Level This will be Southwest's third member (which has continued for 10 years) Mexico destination from DEN. The carrier also flies to San 2007 – The airport's recycling program, which was begun at Stapleton moves to single- José del Cabo and Cancún. stream recycling (currently recycling 2,000 tons of plastic, wood, cardboard and aluminum annually) http://business.flydenver.com/info/news/publications/wingtips/2015AprLarge.html[4/27/2015 3:56:54 PM] WingTips April 2015

2008 – The first of four on-airport solar arrays is commissioned by DIA

2010 – A composting program begins at DIA (100 tons of organic waste composted Contributors annually) Laura Coale – Writer 2013 – DIA becomes the first commercial airport to design a comprehensive plan of Wes Friednash – Writer Area Navigation (RNAV). The FAA estimates that the new RNAV procedures for arriving Steve Klodt – Chief Editor aircraft into Denver will save each flight 14 to 21 gallons of fuel Heath Montgomery – Writer

2014 – A savings of $327,000 in electricity costs per year is achieved when DIA replaces Ken Mostek - Photographer 5,400 parking garage lights with energy-efficient LED fixtures

Denver International Airport's Environmental Services staff celebrated Earth Day on April 22 (the day's 45th anniversary) with displays that highlighted the airport's sustainability initiatives over the last 20 years and with some earth-friendly handouts.

DIA to Double Number of Its Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Ten new electric vehicle charging stations will be installed this fall in the west parking garage, doubling the number of DIA's charging stations, which are free to customers who pay to park in a garage.

The new stations will have the airport's first AC Level 2 chargers and are compatible with most electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. The project will bring DIA's number of publicly available vehicle charging stations to 20.

AC Level 2 charges use 240-volt infrastructure and provide up to 20 miles of range per hour of charge time, according to U.S. Department of Energy estimates.

The project is partially funded using a grant awarded to DIA from the Charge Ahead Colorado Electric Vehicle and Charging Station grant fund, a program of the Regional Air Quality Council and the Colorado Energy Office. The grant will pay for $32,600 of the estimated $85,000 project.

DIA installed five electric vehicle charging stations in both the east and west parking garages in late 2013. Those 10 AC Level 1 stations use 120-volt infrastructure that provides up to five miles of range per hour of charging time.

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Great Men and Women of Aviation Bessie Coleman

Bessie Coleman, was the first African American woman, and most likely the first black woman in the world, to earn a pilot's license. National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. SI 88-7993.

As a manicurist at White Sox Barber Shop in Chicago, Bessie Coleman was fascinated when people told her stories about pilots' experiences flying during World War I, and she soon wanted to fly herself. Realizing that she had no chance to get into any American flight schools because of her race, she moved to France, where she could enroll in a flight school.

By 1921, Coleman was learning to fly a Nieuport Type 82 biplane. Just six months after she started training, Coleman received an international aviation license from the Fédération Aéronatique Internationale, becoming the first African American woman (and probably the first black woman in the world) to receive a pilot's license.

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Upon Coleman's return to the United States in 1922, The New York Times covered her arrival, reporting: "Termed by leading French and Dutch aviators one of the best flyers they had seen, Miss Bessie Coleman, said to be the only negro aviatrix in the world, returned from Europe yesterday to give a series of exhibitions in this country. . . ."

Coleman toured the country, flying in airshows and earning money to buy her own planes. She refused to perform unless the audiences were desegregated and everyone attending used the same entrance gates.

Unfortunately, Coleman was never able to accomplish her dream of launching a flight school for black students. In Jacksonville, Fla., on the evening of April 30, 1926, Coleman and her mechanic took her newly purchased Curtiss "Jenny" airplane for a test flight ahead of an exhibition scheduled for the next day. The aircraft malfunctioned, and the mechanic, who was piloting the plane, lost control. The aircraft rolled and Coleman fell out of an open cockpit and was killed after falling several hundred feet.

Bessie Coleman, was the first African American woman to earn a pilot's license. Shown here, she is standing on a wheel of a Curtiss JN-4 "Jennie" aircraft in her custom designed flying suit (circa 1924). National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. SI 88-7993.

Since her death, Coleman's accomplishments—known by a few aviation scholars—have become more well-known among school students and the general public. She inspired an all-black airshow just five years after her death. There are flying clubs and streets named after her, and even commemorative stamps issued in her honor. Ordinary, she was not.

"The air is the only place free from prejudices." –Bessie Coleman, 1921

Great Lakes Airlines Flights Give Access to Utah Parks

National Parks Week—April 18 through 26—is the perfect time to talk about new air service that will take you near two national parks and one national monument in eastern Utah.

These natural treasures are going to be easily accessible now that is resuming nonstop air service between Denver and two Utah cities—Moab (Canyonlands Field [CNY]) and Vernal (VEL)—starting May 1, 2015. The airline will

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have 12 roundtrip flights between DEN and both cities every week.

The Green River from Hardscrabble Hill in Canyonlands National Park—near Moab, Utah. National Park Service photo by Andrew Kuhn

Great Lakes Airlines flights to Moab will put you within an hour's drive of Arches and Canyonlands national parks.

Arches, bordering the Colorado River on its southern perimeter, is five miles north of town. This park has campsites and hiking trails that lead through wind-eroded sandstone formations and showcase such geologic curiosities as monoliths, arches, natural bridges, and balanced rocks. In the distance, contrasting with the red sandstone park are the La Sal Mountains.

The Delicate Arch at Night. The arch is located in Arches National Park. Photo by Jacob W. Frank National Park Service.

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Turrett Arch and La Sal Mountains in Arches National Park —near Moab, Utah. National Park Service photo by Jacob W. Frank

The road to Canyonlands is not far from Moab (10 miles north on U.S. Highway 191). But, once you reach this access road (Utah Highway 313) you have to travel another 22 miles to reach the visitor center. Along the way you can stop at Dead Horse Point State Park, which has a spectacular view of the Colorado River—one of the two major rivers that carved Canyonlands and turned its topography into a mostly red sandstone wonderland.

Canyonlands has four districts—each with distinguishing characteristics. The Island in the Sky district is where you can experience the park from a large mesa top. From there you overlook an expanse of river-eroded landscape. In addition to camping sites the mesa has hiking, biking and a precipitous four-wheel-drive trek that hugs cliffs as it winds from the high mesa down to a lower mesa and its White Rim drive, which travels along its edges. Each turnout offers sweeping views of desert geology—changed

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over millions of years as the rivers pushed and dug through the land, exposing layers of sedimentary rock that mark time from the Pennsylvanian geological period (286 to 320 million years ago) at river level up to the canyon crown, formed in the Jurassic period (144 to 208 million years ago).

Mesa Arch at dawn. Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park —near Moab, Utah. National Park Service photo by Neal Herbert.

The Needles district is south of Island in the Sky (40 miles south of Moab, then 35 miles west). The district's name describes the sandstone spires that dominate the area. The Maze—the park's third district—is remote canyon wilderness, accessible only by foot or four-wheel drive vehicle, hours from the closest town and ranger station, which means hours from food, gas, and potable water (crucial in the desert).

Chesler Park in the Needless District of Canyonlands National Park —near Moab, Utah. National Park Service photo by Neal Herbert.

Canyonlands' last district is the rivers themselves. The park's other major river is the Green, which meets the Colorado within the Needles District before the Colorado

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heads south toward a rendezvous with Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam.

Great Lakes Airlines will also serve Vernal, Utah, which is near Dinosaur National Monument, which straddles both Utah and Colorado. From Vernal, you'd travel east on U.S. 40 for a few miles before turning north on state highway 149 toward the visitor center. There you'll find an exhibit hall and an enclosed fossil quarry, where paleontologists have uncovered a motherlode of ancient reptile bones that have given the park its name. More than 1,500 fossilized bones are embedded in the quarry rock, and paleontologists have found the skeletons of Camarasaurus, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and other dinosaurs.

A juvenile Camarasaurus. One of numerous fossils on display at Dinosaur National Monument — near Vernal, Utah. National Park Service photo.

Dinosaur National Park has two converging rivers: the aforementioned Green—which rolls south from Wyoming, passing through the Flaming Gorge Dam, leaving Utah and flowing into Colorado—and the Yampa, which rushes west from the Rockies before merging with the Green River as it churns back into Utah.

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The Yampa River in Dinosaur National Monument —near Vernal, Utah. National Park Service photo.

One of the best ways to see Dinosaur National Monument is from the Green or Yampa as they wind through their canyons. Both rivers have rapids, so if you enjoy whitewater, a rafting or kayaking journey may be your activity of choice. You can also pass through Canyonlands by raft or kayak, enjoying flat stretches; the more adventurous can experience Cataract Canyon—inside park boundaries—known for its violent rapids.

The Green River from Harpers Corner Trail in Dinosaur National Monument —near Vernal, Utah. National Park Service photo.

In all parks you can enjoy the wildlife, desert trees, shrubs and flowers, and ancient petroglyphs. For information about these natural destinations follow these links:

Arches

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Canyonlands Dinosaur National Monument

British Airways London Route Now Offers First Class Service on 747-400

Passengers traveling nonstop from Denver International Airport to London Heathrow Airport are flying on a larger aircraft and have an option for first class service. British Airways is operating a Boeing 747-400, with 337 seats, in lieu of the Boeing 777-200 with 275 seats on its daily nonstop route between Denver and London—a capacity increase of 23 percent. British Airways will be introducing first class service into the Denver market in addition to Club World, World Traveller Plus and World Traveller.

A British Airways Boeing 747-400 lands at Denver International airport after flying from London Heathrow. BA started flying this larger aircraft in March and now offers first class seating for its long-haul flight. Photo by Erik Conerty.

This British Airways flight to London has supported 1,300 local jobs annually, generated $694 million in wages, and has impacted Colorado's economy by more than $2.2 billion since service began on Sept. 1, 1998, according to DIA's analysis. This route was DIA's first daily, year-round transatlantic flight since the airport opened in 1995. More than 2.5 million passengers have traveled on this flight between September 1998 and February 2015.

Further information, including flight schedules, fares and the airline's flagship brand, First, are available at www.ba.com.

First 747 Gets New Life at Museum of Flight

Speaking of 747s, the world's first B-747 (RA001), Boeing's prototype and test aircraft, has been restored and is now permanently displayed at Seattle's Museum of Flight. The 747, named The City of Everett, took its first flight on Feb. 9, 1969, and over time fell into disrepair,

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The Museum of Flight in Seattle has restored the very first Boeing 747 built: RA001—named City of Everett. The aircraft was the prototype of the 747 series and was used over many years for testing. Photo taken from the Museum of Flight's November/December issue of Aloft magazine.

The museum began restoring the 747's interior December 2013. The painting of the plane's exterior began last July.

To read more about the first 747, visit the Museum of Flight's website —www.museumofflight.org—and click on the menu item "Aircraft."

The Kindest Flight

Governor John Hickenlooper visited Denver International Airport on April 10 to partner with Southwest Airlines and DIA in support of the Random Acts of Kindness initiative.

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper visited a Southwest Airlines gate at DIA on April 10 in partnership with the airline to encourage passengers and employees to support the 10,000 acts of kindness initiative. Southwest Airlines assigned its Colorado One aircraft to fly the "kindest flight" that morning. On the right is Erin Trapp, CEO/executive director, Biennial of the Americas,

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who introduced the governor.

During his inaugural activities this year, the governor had challenged Coloradoans to engage in 10,000 random acts of kindness between Jan. 13 and July 14, 2015—the start date of the third annual Biennial of the Americas. He encouraged everyone to post their random acts of kindness on Twitter, Vine, Facebook or Instagram using #StateofKind and track the initiative's progress.

Hickenlooper greeted Southwest's Colorado One specialty aircraft, parked at the gate to operate flight 259, to show his support for the "kindest flight." He encouraged Southwest customers and employees to perform random acts of kindness and share them on social media.

Denver International Airport employee Laura Coale (second from right) offers some passengers cookies, as part of the Random Acts of Kindness event hosted by Southwest Airlines and attended by Gov. Hickenlooper.

To the Southwest passengers, who were bound for Omaha, Gov. Hickenlooper said they should visit his friend Brian Magee's brewpub—Upstream Brewery—and tell Magee that if they performed a random act of kindness he should buy them a beer.

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A lucky passenger on Southwest flight 259, named "the kindest flight in history," receives two roundtrip tickets from the airline as part of the Random Acts of Kindness event on April 10.

As part of the morning's festivity, Southwest Airlines kindly gave away roundtrip tickets to a very surprised and delighted flight 259 passenger. The airline also randomly handed out goodie bags and gift certificates.

Throughout the day, Denver International Airport employees gave model DIA airplanes and cookies to random travelers.

The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation was established in 1995 as an internationally recognized nonprofit headquartered in Denver, Colo., dedicated to inspiring people to practice kindness and pass it on to others. RAK provides free online resources to encourage acts of kindness across the globe, specifically in school communities. www.randomactsofkindness.org

#StateOfKind Challenge asks Colorado citizens to collectively perform 10,000 acts of kindness in the six months between Governor Hickenlooper's inauguration on January 13 and the third annual Biennial of the Americas event on July 14, 2015.

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